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Universal Music Pays Largest Payola Settlement to Date

Published on May 11, 2006
In the largest settlement yet in New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer's payola investigations, the Universal Music Group, the largest music company in the world, has agreed to pay $12 million to settle claims that execs paid radio programmers to play its music, writes The New York Times.